Daryl Gregory was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, with his two sisters. He graduated from Illinois State University in 1987 with majors in English and theater. That same year, he married Kathleen Bieschke. After graduation, he taught high school in Michigan for three years, before moving to Salt Lake City, when Bieschke got a job at University of Utah. Bieschke then was hired by Penn State, and the couple moved to State College, where Gregory was employed by Minitab. The couple divorced in 2016. They have two adult children, Emma and Ian.[3] For several years Gregory lived on the west coast, in Oakland, California, Seattle, Washington, and Piedmont, California, and in 2021 moved back to State College, PA.
Gregory's first sale was to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1990, the short story "In the Wheels".[4] His first novel, Pandemonium, was published by Del Rey Books in 2008, for which he won the 2009 Crawford Award for best first fantasy book. Pandemonium was also nominated for the World Fantasy Award,[5] the Mythopoeic Awards[6] and the Shirley Jackson Award.[7] His second novel, The Devil's Alphabet was published by Del Rey Books in 2009.[8]The Devil's Alphabet was named one of the best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly.[9] It was additionally nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 2010.[10] In 2011, his third novel, Raising Stony Mayhall, was published [11] and was named one of the best science fiction books of the year by Library Journal[12] The same year, a short story collection entitled Unpossible and Other Stories was published by Fairwood Press.[13]Publishers Weekly named Unpossible one of the five best science fiction books of the year.[14]
Gregory was hired by Boom! Studios in 2010 to co-write Dracula: Company of Monsters with Kurt Busiek. He was additionally hired to write the Planet of the Apes tie-in comic starting in August 2011.[3]IDW hired Gregory to write The Secret Battles of Genghis Khan, a stand-alone graphic novel published in March 2013.[15]
Neuro-SF novel Afterparty was published by Tor Books in April 2014 and picked up by Titan Books in the UK. The novella "We Are All Completely Fine", published by Tachyon Publications in August, 2014, was a Nebula Award finalist, and won the 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, as well as the Shirley Jackson Award.[16] Gregory also published a young-adult novel, Harrison Squared (Tor Books), in March 2015.
The literary speculative novel Spoonbenders was published by Knopf on June 27, 2017.[17] Spoonbenders is being developed for television Berlanti Productions.[18]
Novelette “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth” was published on 9/19/18 by Tor.com, and was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette.[19] Novella The Album of Dr. Moreau was published in May 2021 by Tor.com.[20] Appalachian horror novel Revelator was published by Knopf in August 2021.[21]
